It's not "gender", it's "sex".

Makes me laugh when people ask if I'm going to find out the "gender" of this baby. Sex refers to the physical anatomy, while gender is 100% culturally learned from one's lifestyle. I swear society is getting dumber by the day...

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gen·der\ˈjen-dər\ noun 1 a : a subclass within a grammatical class (as noun, pronoun, adjective, or verb) of a language that is partly arbitrary but also partly based on distinguishable characteristics (as shape, social rank, manner of existence, or sex) and that determines agreement with and selection of other words or grammatical forms b : membership of a word or a grammatical form in such a subclass c : an inflectional form showing membership in such a subclass 2 a : sex b : the behavioral, cultural, or psychological traits typically associated with one sex

i read this in the dec birth board and i dont think ppl are dumb its just that some are raised different and prefer to use gender instead of sex for respect to other ppl but u r very right about sex being the correct term to use